It's got me wondering what I'd really like to see from a new Zelda. To be honest, what I really want is just good animation and a world I can fall in love with. It might sound crazy, but these videos aren't too far off for me.

I actually stopped playing when I was a kid because of the water temple. Picked it up YEARS later and finished it. When I replayed on the 3DS I kind of laughed at myself because it was so much easier as an adult XD

It's strange, though: I beat it on the N64 without any play guides or anything, and I remember it being a little disorienting, but by no means impossible. Just a challenging part of a wonderful game. Then years later I hear that people actually stopped playing as a result of it!

I seriously spent the better part of 6 hours trying to work out the next step, to the point that when i replayed on the 3DS I laughed because it was a simple case of not checking in a direction in the water tower. I didn't retrace my steps properly and hence screwed it up as a kid XD

Never a bad wrap, it was just the most disorienting dungeon of the lot I would say. Everyone I knew said it was hands down the hardest dungeon. I was only 12 when I bought my N64 and played Zelda, so my problem solving skills weren't the best :P

I will admit I had a guide but I used it for the heart piece locations. Never read the dungeon or the boss sections.

Given that (via the guide) I ground up and had around eight or nine hearts before going in and I was playing Myst games at the time most lightly made the dungeon easy for me, but the action oriented ones (shadow and light) basically owned me.

Water temple was awesome! Just when you sink a serious amount of time and can't get through it as a 12 year old, I kind of switched off for a while and then went onto other stuff. Actually I think I bought Pokemon Blue about 3 months after I got OoT... that explains a LOT :P

Story time! I went to an all-girls’ school. My friends and I had that special bond of closeness that apparently comes with synced-up periods and measuring the length of each other’s winter leg hair.
This, obviously, led to a brief era of trying to catch one of the others unawares with the most impressive, most unexpected spank possible. We’re talking sneaking up behind each other in the hallway and laying one down that made the earth shake. If I couldn’t read your palm from the imprint, you weren’t doing a good enough job.